8-letter words containing l, o, e, f
- fetlocks — Plural form of fetlock.
- fetology — a field of medicine involving the study, diagnosis, and treatment of the fetus.
- filioque — (theology) The use of the Latin word filioque (and the son) in the Western form of the Nicene Creed, to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son (as opposed to the Eastern churches which believe the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone).
- fillmore — Millard [mil-erd] /ˈmɪl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1800–74, 13th president of the United States 1850–53.
- filmgoer — a person who attends motion-picture showings.
- firebolt — A missile of fire.
- firelock — a gun having a lock in which the priming is ignited by sparks struck from flint and steel, as the flintlock musket.
- firepole — A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
- fishpole — A fishing pole.
- fivefold — five times as great or as much.
- flagpole — a staff or pole on which a flag is or can be displayed.
- flame on — (messaging, jargon) To begin or continue to flame. The punning reference to Marvel Comics's Human Torch is no longer widely recognised. The phrase "flame on" may actually precede the flame, in which case "flame off" will follow it. See rave, burble.
- flamenco — a style of dancing, characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies, that is strongly rhythmic and involves vigorous actions, as clapping the hands and stamping the feet.
- flameout — burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor.
- flaperon — a control surface functioning both as a flap and as an aileron.
- flavored — (of food or drink) having a particular type of taste.
- flavorer — One who or that which flavors.
- flaysome — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Terrifying; frightful.
- fleasome — having fleas; flea-ridden
- fleawort — a European plantain, Plantago psyllium, having seeds that are used in medicine.
- flection — the act of bending.
- fleshpot — fleshpots. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas. luxurious and unrestrained living.
- flexagon — a three-dimensional figure having polygonal faces that is constructed from a folded sheet of paper in such a way that different faces are exposed when the figure is flexed along its folds.
- flexions — the act of bending.
- flexuous — full of bends or curves; sinuous.
- floatage — an act of floating.
- floaters — a person or thing that floats.
- floccose — Botany. consisting of or bearing woolly tufts or long soft hairs.
- floccule — something resembling a small flock or tuft of wool.
- flockbed — a bed with a mattress stuffed with wool refuse, shearings of cloth, or the like.
- floeberg — a mass of ice floes resembling an iceberg.
- floggers — Plural form of flogger.
- flooders — high waters.
- floorage — floor space.
- floozies — Plural form of floozie.
- flopover — a continuous, vertical movement of a television image picture caused by interference in reception or by improper tuning.
- floppers — air plant (def 2).
- floppier — Comparative form of floppy.
- floppies — Plural form of floppy.
- florence — Italian Firenze. a city in central Italy, on the Arno River: capital of the former grand duchy of Tuscany.
- florette — a small flower.
- florigen — a hypothetical plant hormone produced in the leaves and transported to the apex to initiate flowering.
- floscule — a floret; a single blossom of a composite flower
- flossier — Comparative form of flossy.
- flounced — Simple past tense and past participle of flounce.
- flounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounce.
- flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flowable — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flowered — having flowers.
- flowerer — a plant that flowers at a specific time or in a certain manner.